Chapter 74 is calculated

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Tang Yuan climbed onto the bus to the market, carrying sixty kilograms of tea leaves and a large bag of wallet.

Coincidentally, there was someone on the bus who had seen her several times before. Seeing her carrying a big bag on the bus again, he curiously asked, "What are you going to do?"

"We're selling it at XX," Tang Yuan said after he had arranged the bags. "We're selling tea leaves, 50 cents per ounce, all of them are top quality tea leaves."

"Tea..."

The person asking the question didn't say anything, and someone next to him said, "Is the tea you brought really good? It's not easy to buy good tea in Hong Kong."

"Okay," Tang Yuan pointed to the tea bag at his feet, "We'll go to the market later. Do you want some? If you want, I can open it and weigh some for you."

It takes a while to go to the market by bus. There aren't many people on the bus at this time, so Tang Yuan said this. If there were more people, she would definitely not go through so much trouble.

Seeing someone was interested, she opened the bag of tea, picked up the steelyard and old newspapers beside her, and put on gloves.

The people around just watched her move until she opened the bag of tea. Someone directly asked: "Can you weigh half a catty for me? Half a catty and eight ounces, right?"

"Yes, four yuan for half a pound." Tang Yuan put the old newspapers on the weighing plate, grabbed the tea leaves with his gloved hands, and quickly got half a pound of tea leaves.

After wrapping the tea, she tied it with a rope as before and handed it to the person who asked for tea.

"This tea is good. Give me four ounces." Another person watched the whole process and also spoke up. "The market where you sell tea is a bit far. I usually don't go there."

"There are many people over there, so things sell out quickly." Tang Yuan chatted with others while continuing to work with his hands.

Except for pushing it at the beginning, she just weighed it afterwards and didn't say much about the quality of the tea. It's not that she was unwilling to sell it, but there were still many customers waiting in the market. If she sold out here, she would not be able to do business there.

So she only sold a few packets on the bus and spent the rest of the time chatting with people.

The person who had initially asked about tea had been traveling with her, and when she arrived at the market stop, he had no intention of getting off the bus.

After the car door opened, Tang Yuan picked up the tea and the bag full of wallet without saying a word, got out of the car quickly, and walked towards the market entrance carrying the two bags.

Not long after she got off the bus, it set off quickly.

The people in the car reacted: "She just left like that?"

"We're here now. If not now, when?" The passenger in the car said with a smile, "You're planning to buy some tea too? Why didn't you tell me just now?"

"Didn't I forget that?"

As he spoke, the man subconsciously looked out the window.

The people in the car couldn't help laughing when they saw this.

On the other side, Tang Yuan arrived at the entrance of the market. Before he even reached his seat, he met a customer who had been waiting for him: "You're finally here."

"You've waited so early. I wanted to come earlier today," Tang Yuan said casually. When he got closer, he didn't say much and directly spread out the thick cloth to be laid underneath. "We have tea leaves. I'll come back tomorrow."

"Your tea business is really good," the customer said with emotion, "I think the time is about right, can you weigh two kilograms for me?"

"Okay, I'll divide the two kilograms into four bags for you." Tang Yuan bent down and grabbed the tea leaves.

After the first customer came, more and more customers came around. Some of them had been waiting for a while in the morning, and some were strangers.

When faced with the price of tea, no one said it was expensive. They just took a look at the quality of the tea and placed an order directly and asked her to weigh it.

Tang Yuan brought a total of 60 kilograms of tea leaves in the afternoon and sold a few kilograms in the car. He thought it should be enough, but he didn't expect that while he was selling, the bag was empty again.

"There's nothing left today. Come back tomorrow." Tang Yuan began to empty the last bit of tea in the bag.

"Don't you have a big bag there? Isn't it?"

"No, this is a wallet," Tang Yuan directly opened the backpack filled with small wallets, "Tea will be available tomorrow. If you need it, you can come tomorrow. It's still this time. You can get it even if you come earlier."

"Your wallet is nice," the customer stood on tiptoe to take a look, "Why don't you sell these small wallets?"

"It's for sale in the market. If you want to go inside, you can go and take a look. You can take out everything and look at it." Tang Yuan put away the things in front of him. "There are a lot of things in there. Why don't we go in and take a look together?"

Several guests originally wanted to take a stroll, so after Tang Yuan said this, they all nodded and were led inside by her.

Not long after, the group arrived at Aunt Li and Aunt Lan's stall.

Before the two could say anything, Tang Yuan immediately spoke up: "The guest wants to see the wallet. Aunt Li and Aunt Lan will introduce it to the guest."

The two were stunned for a moment. Auntie Lan reacted first. She smiled and pointed at the small stone slab where the wallets were placed. She introduced them to the customer one by one and successfully helped the customer choose the small wallet he liked.

A group of guests left, and Auntie Lan turned around and asked: "Why did you bring guests here today?"

"The customer was so enthusiastic that the tea I brought this afternoon sold out quickly. He also took a fancy to the big bag I was carrying. I told him about the situation and he was interested, so he brought it." Tang Yuan opened the bag and took out the small wallet inside. "This time, there are a few more with different patterns, mainly with different fabrics, so that the customer can change the style."

She had a lot of scraps of fabric in stock. Apart from a small amount of particularly good material that she gave to Aunt Wei, who embroidered them and took them to the handicraft shop to sell, there were also many scraps of fabric that were not denim or shirting fabrics.

She packed up some of it and made it into a wallet.

"Although the styles are the same, the appearance is different and there will still be customers willing to buy them," Auntie Lan temporarily handed the stall to Auntie Li and packed up the wallet that Tang Yuan brought over. "I still have quite a few regular customers here. One of them bought several denim wallets and came from time to time to ask if there are any new ones."

"It's so popular?" Tang Yuan was surprised.

"It's not expensive in the first place, and the wallets won't expire after you buy them. You can buy as many as you want, and the wallets you brought are of good quality." After counting the wallets, Aunt Lan recorded the specific quantity in a notebook, and settled the accounts for last evening and today, and handed the money she earned to Tang Yuan.

There are two copies of the notebook recording quantities and accounts, one in Tang Yuan's hand and one in Aunt Lan's hand. This can avoid the problem of tampering and all the accounts can be clearly recorded.

As they talked, the two packed up all the wallets and temporarily stored them in the corner of the room.

Tang Yuan had finished packing and was about to leave when someone came over with something in his hand: "Sister Lan, this is the dried fish you wanted."

"Is it ten yuan as agreed upon? I don't want any more than that," Auntie Lan said as she looked at the salted fish she brought over. "Is this fish fresh?"

"Fresh, definitely fresh," the other party handed the dried fish to Aunt Lan, "Look, they are all freshly dried fish, ten yuan is ten yuan, this pound of dried fish requires a lot of fresh fish to be dried."

"Your fresh fish is easy to sell. Where do you need dried fish? I guess there's a good harvest recently?" Aunt Lan took the dried fish, looked it up and down to make sure it was fine. She weighed it and then paid for it.

Tang Yuan glanced at the dried fish in Aunt Lan's hand, then turned around and asked, "I want to buy some dried fish, too."

"Ten yuan a pound," Auntie Lan looked at the visitor, "She is my child, so you have to give her a price."

"Okay, okay, give me a price," the other party nodded and greeted Tang Yuan warmly, "How much dried fish do you want, pretty girl? Let me tell you, the dried fish I have is the best and freshest, and the price is affordable. If you didn't know Sister Lan, you wouldn't be able to get such a good price."

"If it's good, I can buy a few more kilograms," Tang Yuan said, and greeted Aunt Lan. "Aunt Lan, I'm going to look at the dried fish. I'll leave after I see them. Come back tomorrow."

"Okay, please walk slowly," Auntie Lan walked Tang Yuan to the door and did not forget to say to the dried fish seller, "Fish seller, you can't cheat my child. If I find out that you cheated my child, I will definitely settle the score with you later."

"No, no, I can't cheat anyone but your family, Sister Lan," the other party nodded quickly, took Tang Yuan away and whispered to her, "Your Aunt Lan is really unforgiving."

"Aunt Lan and I are close. Aren't you afraid that I will complain if you say that?" Tang Yuan said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, you guys are in the same group." The other party took Tang Yuan into the store and introduced her to the price of dried fish, as well as the price of salted fish.

The average market price of fresh fish in Hong Kong is eight yuan per pound. The price of different fish will vary depending on their rarity, but the fish in the store here are all ordinary fish, and the price difference is only a few yuan.

The fish used for dried fish is not very fresh, but because it is sun-dried, it is much lighter and the wholesale price is only slightly more expensive than fresh fish.

"Give me 20 kilograms of dried salted fish," Tang Yuan said. "I have a lot of people there, so I'll need more fish in the future. Give me a good price, and I'll come back to buy."

The other party was stunned for a moment and looked at Tang Yuan: "You and Sister Lan are not related, right?"

Tang Yuan raised his eyebrows: "Then I can't complain to Aunt Lan?"

"Okay," the other person said with a smile, "Since we are all relatives, we are acquaintances. You can call me Uncle Kang. I will charge you ten yuan per catty for this fish. Twenty catties of fish will cost you two hundred yuan in total."

"Auntie Lan mentioned this price as well." Tang Yuan looked at the other party.

"That's different. Your Aunt Lan said what she said. I am willing to give you this price now," said Uncle Kang righteously, as if Tang Yuan had gotten a great bargain. "If you come again, I can still give you this price. It definitely has nothing to do with your Aunt Lan."

Tang Yuan stopped arguing with him. She mainly trusted Aunt Lan's taste. Since Aunt Lan was willing to believe it, it showed that the salted fish in this restaurant was indeed good.

However, after paying the money, she asked the other party to send her a bag, put 20 kilograms of dried salted fish in the bag, and carried the big bag back.

That night, she steamed a small piece of salted fish and ate it with rice. It tasted really good.

Moreover, a small piece of salted fish can make up a whole meal. Even if a pound of salted fish is a little expensive, it is worth buying a pound or two to eat for a period of time.

When you go out to sell things, you have to take a little risk.

Today she sold 140 kilograms of tea and earned a total of HK$1,120.

The more Hong Kong dollars she earns, the less RMB savings she will have. She still has to go out to earn money and cannot just spend money without earning any.